This afternoon, I went with Ben & Coco to eat pho. I put my contacts in before leaving because wearing a mask fogs up glasses and everyone knows how annoying that is. In addition, it was a beautiful, sunny day and I wanted to wear sunglasses and make goofy faces for selfies with Coco wearing her sunglasses. 🙂
Pho is served with sprouts, jalapeños and more — but there was a black spot on one of my jalapeno slices so I picked it off before dropping it into the bowl. I KNEW touching my eyes after touching that green chile pepper would cause pain. I washed my hands before taking out my contacts, but what I didn’t know is that even after that if you touch your eyes it will still burn. Like FIRE it will burn. For 15 long minutes… it will burn. Lesson learned.
And then, a friend parked his new Corvette in my driveway because he was going to the races (the Jackson 100 dirt track race in Brownstown, IN) and didn’t want to take his new car there. Feeling impish, I took a photo of the car in my driveway and sent a text to Perry and to the Peskies. Their responses were as different as night and day and both made me laugh.
This upcoming week may be our last with temps in the 80’s. Looks like fall may very well be on the way and I couldn’t be more excited. Woot!
TIL (Today I Learned): Jalapeños are a fruit and not a vegetable. What? Botanists define berry as a fleshy fruit with many seeds inside. Therefore, Jalapeños, with numerous seeds embedded inside, is also a berry. In fact, all varieties of peppers and bell peppers that have edible seeds inside them are fruits and not vegetables.
Being negative — negative thinking — is bad. Negative COVID test results are good. The Perrymeister’s test came back negative. Yippee! Ben is feeling pretty normal and Colette is getting better daily. I’ll get a test on Thursday and hopefully get a negative result too. My main concern now is simply how many more times I’ll have to mow this season.
Of course, I really have a whole bunch of other things that could be better. But focusing on or worrying about what you can’t change doesn’t help anything. If I could wave a magic wand and make events start happening again I’d already have tennis elbow. And if events were happening, I’d be the first in line to purchase the new iPhone 13 Pro Max with 1TB of storage ($1600.00), AND a new series 7 Apple watch ($499.00) that is set to come out later this fall. Did y’all watch the Apple event today? Just WOW!
TIL (Today I Learned): Cats can get whisker fatigue. Cat food and water bowls should be shallow enough that their whiskers don’t touch the sides to avoid the dreaded whisker fatigue — it’s adds extra stress for felines. (Another reason to have dogs.)
Labor Day weekend and we didn’t do anything amazing… except eat. Benjamin and I traveled north to Pho Shiki early in the weekend and I thought I’d have a nervous breakdown before we arrived. Someone pulled out in front of him so he rode their bumper so close I thought I’d put my foot through the floorboard. (Remember Fred Flintstone?) He drives my car like it’s a go-cart. When I asked him what he thought he was trying to prove he told me he was HANGRY.
The pho was great and the ride home was normal. What isn’t normal is the burrito I got from El Nopal this evening. It was big enough to feed a family of four! I’ve never in my life seen a burrito look like this. Eat your heart out Taco Bell… you can not compete.
COVID-19: My county and state (Indiana) has about the same % of people with COVID as last week. Florida is up to 16.28 and Nevada is down slightly. From what I’ve read, a Moderna booster won’t be approved at the same time as Pfizer’s — but Moderna is more effective. No word on J&J.
TIL (Today I Learned): The longest surgery ever recorded was performed in 2001 by a team of 20 doctors; it took 103 hours (more than four days) to complete. The surgery was on 11-month-old twins conjoined at the head with brains partially fused. The operation was a success — although one contracted meningitis 7-years later and passed away, the other twin is a teen that can talk, sing and attend school. Another interesting thing to note — Ben Carson served as an advisor to the team.
Fear Thy Neighbor is a true crime series where neighbors feud to the point of violence and murder. Episodes have names like “Bloodshed on Beattie Street,” “Sin City Shootout,” and “Hell in Hawaii.” If I keep mowing the grass here so often, the great relationship I have with my neighbor currently could potentially rate a full episode before winter. It will likely be called, “Lashed on Lasher” or maybe “Slaughtered in Seymour.”
Yesterday was the first day for renewed restrictions on the purchase of toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectant wipes, and Pine Sol in neighboring Columbus and Clarksville, IN. I hate to think this could be a predictor of another lock down on the horizon. My county in Indiana has 13.73% of the population with positive cases of COVID — 13.08% statewide. Still better than Florida at 15.65%, but worse than Nevada with 13.45% positive.
TIL (Today I Learned): The apple in the Apple logo has a bite out of it simply for purposes of scale; the image had to look like an apple when the logo is reduced in size and not a cherry.
I purchased these dog-toy pigs that make a ‘grunting’ noise when squeezed or dropped. There have been a couple times that I’ve thought one of the dogs was about to puke — sorta’ like the gagging sound made before a mess appears on the floor — but it was just a little piggy.
The reason it’s important to mention the little piggy today is because Merida thought it was a great idea to bring it to bed. At 3:30 AM ET this morning, she rolled over on the pig and almost gave me a heart attack. Before bed, I’d watched a full season of 60 Days In, and immediately thought someone was about to shank me. (Pretty sure you can watch for free with the above link.)
The first two seasons of 60 Days In was filmed in the Clark County jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Basically, ‘normal’ people are incarcerated as undercover prisoners for 60-days with only a few staff members aware of the program. They are there to obtain evidence of any illegal/improper activities (by staff or inmates) to help improve overall jail conditions. The Indiana seasons first aired in 2016.
I learned I never EVER want to go to county lockup; inmates eat a lot of tater tots; and after 30-days everyone loses at least 50% of their brain cells. It’s similar to what happens to hound dogs when they get a pig of their own…
TIL (Today I Learned): Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker, wasn’t happy with just the money adoring fans were spending on Elvis merchandise in the 50’s. He figured he could also cash in by selling “I hate Elvis” and “Elvis is a jerk” buttons — a next-level advertising project that covers all bases. (Hmmm… 3 guesses what’s crossing my mind right now. 🙂 )
